After months of relentless propaganda by mining companies and the corporate media, the idea of taxing the super profits of the big mining companies remains a popular measure. Recent Essential Research said 51% support such a tax (up from 50% since July 2010). Opposition to it rose from 28% to 33%.
905
鈥淕illard and Abbott fly in and out of Afghanistan under heavy protection from harm. Both curry political advantage from the khaki vote. The rest of us see young Ozzie lives ripped apart without any obvious gain to ordinary Afghans. Let the pollies go and fight their own useless war 鈥︹
鈥淒an51鈥 from Sydney, who made this comment under a November 22 Sydney Morning Herald article, is part of the majority (64% in the November 21 Essential Poll or 72% according to Roy Morgan), who want Australian soldiers out of Afghanistan.
鈥淧eople are joining up to the Lock the Gate Alliance all over the country,鈥, Lock the Gate president Drew Hutton told a rally of about 100 outside Brisbane鈥檚 Sofitel Hotel on November 24.
The rally was called to protest at the annual general meeting of coal seam gas (CSG) company LNG Ltd. The company鈥檚 AGM took place inside the hotel.
Hutton said: 鈥淭he Lock the Gate Alliance is now moving to 鈥楤lock the Gate鈥. We are calling on groups all over Australia to blockade wherever CSG companies are setting up, against the wishes of the farmers and landholders.
Adelaide Socialist Alliance branch hosted a Solidarity Dinner and Fiesta on November 19 to celebrate 20 years of 麻豆传媒 Weekly and raise funds for the paper鈥檚 fighting fund.
The event was a great success, with about 50 people attending. Those present ranged from long time GLW supporters to young Resistance activists, members of the Latin American community and people involved in Occupy Adelaide.
Wollongong City Council, elected on September 3, has so far made several decisions that reflect community will in the area. This is a refreshing change from the years of corruption scandals that rocked the last elected council and the four-year unelected administration that followed it.
All 13 councillors, including four Liberal, four Labor, three independent and two Green, are under immense pressure to deliver outcomes for the community. Key election issues included democracy, transparency and accountability.
The (HACSU) has begun a series of rolling stoppages for better wages and conditions at mental health services across Victoria. HACSU covers mental health and allied health workers.
Stoppages and rallies have been held in Bendigo and Shepparton, and at Eastern Mental Health, St Vincents and Melbourne Health. A two-hour stopwork rally will be held at Latrobe Valley Mental Health on November 29, from noon at the Latrobe Valley Hospital in Traralgon.
A voluntary system of certifying whether goods are free from forced labour is about as far as things go in Australia when it comes to abolishing the slave trade throughout the world.
Though it is illegal to import slave made goods, there has never been a single prosecution for the crime in Australia.
believes it should not be left to the ethics of consumers to decide whether to purchase products made by slaves. Rather, they simply shouldn鈥檛 be available in Australia.
released the statement below on November 23.
* * *
This week the Planning Assessment Commission granted approval to a 16th coal seam gas (CSG) borehole in the Illawarra.
Stop CSG Illawarra spokesperson Jess Moore responded: 鈥淚t is now abundantly clear who [Premier Barry] O鈥橣arrell represents. It鈥檚 not communities, and the concern we express for our water, environment and health; it鈥檚 the CSG industry.
Activists involved in organising October鈥檚 peaceful protests during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Perth had warned that passed for the event could be used to restrict the right to protest in Western Australia.
Now, a month after CHOGM finished, three Perth-based activists are fighting charges related to CHOGM.
released the statement below on November 24.
* * *
"The Australian government should come out and support the Egyptian people in their demand that the Egyptian Supreme Council of Armed Forces (SCAF) return the government to the people who successfully ousted the former dictator Hosni Murbarak in February this year, " Socialist Alliance national convenor Peter Boyle said today.
Since 2008, (Independent Sexuality) festival, the LGBTiQ's main vehicle for awareness raising and education made its contribution to Malaysian society in a beautiful, intellectually artistic manner, devoid of vulgarity.
It made 鈥渟traight鈥 heterosexual society realise and appreciate that other forms of sexual love existed and that these could be as genuine as a woman-man love. It had been and still is a struggle for gay men and women to survive even in apparently liberal-minded societies.
Two hundred people rallied outside NSW parliament on November 23 and handed over 20,000 petitions that call for a moratorium on coal seam gas (CSG) mining, a royal commission into the industry's impacts on communities and the environment and a ban on fracking.
Coalition Premier Barry O'Farrell promised before the last election that his government would convoke a parliamentary debate on any issue upon receiving at least 10,000 petitions.
- Previous page
- Page 4
- Next page